...life would be simpler like in video games like Zelda or Mario Brothers where you had to kill the bad guys who stole your princess?

I would and enjoy fighting through hordes of enemies of all sorts and gain experience while doing so! At the end of the long day get to save your princess in which she would be generously reward you(hoping with her sexy body) and be grateful for you saving her..*yells yay inside*.

I'd rather a mass effect lifestyle, I get to make a pretty rainbow after sacrificing my life to save the Galaxy... and the good thing is someone may spend money to put me back together again so I may not stay dead for long.

If you think about it, life is like that.
Fighting hordes is the same as working in a company or independently; you get experience and grow as a person. At the end of the week/ month/ whatever, you get compensated for your work with money which you can use to buy anything, even sex with a woman that has a sexy body. She might be grateful for the money and would tell you to come again. Yay.

That wouldn't make life simpler at all. Fighting bad guys all the time is definitely not a simple life. And most video games are ridiculously hard to play now.

Says the person who never fought a single bad guy their entire life. When I was in the sands of Afghanistan, in it's highlands and valley passes life was never simpler. I woke each day, slung Cassandra over my back, kicked my spotter awake and did my thing. It was the best and easiest time of my life.

Now that I am back in my own country life is difficult. Civilians are such whiny and needy things, a million and half laws I have to take into consideration just on my drive to work. Even here in the Crunchyroll forums shit is complicated. I have to dance around each and every single fucking thing least I offend some thin skinned mod and get my posts deleted.

Fuck life is simple when you are looking through a rifle's scope. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs their head checked.

I'd rather live as a vault hunter on borderlands 2. After all who doesn't like murdering giant ancient super weapons with a single pistol shot then going after a normal enemy and not killing it with a direct rocket launcher hit? Also Hyperion reviving you is pretty great